22% of homes are second homes, a share 94% of compared French towns don’t reach
Households in social housing are rarer here than in 99% of compared French towns. Sillans-la-Cascade had 787 residents in 350 households at the 2023 Census. Across Sillans-la-Cascade, half of households are headed by a retired person. One-person households: 30%, below nearly four fifths of compared French towns.
Throughout this page, the Var median and the France median are the median of compared communes (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
What stands out about the people of Sillans-la-Cascade
One home in four is a second home
The census counted 110 second homes and occasional dwellings in Sillans-la-Cascade, 22% of its 500 homes: higher than in 94% of compared French towns. 82% of them are houses. Their owners live elsewhere, so they aren’t in the population figures on this page. Homes & cars ↓
An older town
Half of Sillans-la-Cascade’s residents are under 50.9 and half over; the median of compared French towns is 44. 31% are 65 or older (France median 22%), 5.6% 80 or older. Ages ↓
Written from INSEE’s census 2023 on this page, against compared French towns.
In Sillans-la-Cascade, 5% of households have no car, fewer than in 88% of compared French towns
Every home the census counted: main residences, second homes and occasional dwellings (INSEE counts them together), and empty homes. Owning and renting are on Cost of living.
All homes · share of homes
Type of home
Cars per household · share of households
14% of households moved in less than two years ago; 10% have been in their home 30 years or more. As a yardstick, just over one in ten households have no car in the typical compared French town. Flats are rarer here than in 81% of compared French towns. Empty homes: 8.6% here and 6.7% in the typical compared French town.
Faster growth than 73% of compared French towns: Sillans-la-Cascade changed by +11% since 2012
Residents at INSEE’s last three censuses, each recast in the 2026 commune boundaries. France has no yearly estimate by commune between censuses.
2012 to 2023
2017 to 2023
From 2012 to 2017 the population moved +6%, and from 2017 to 2023 +5%; the median compared French town changed +5% and the median Var town +10%.
Sillans-la-Cascade is older than 86% of compared French towns: a median age of 50.9
Shares of residents by age at the 2023 census.
Age groups · share of residents
Median age of the 3,798 compared French towns
■ Sillans-la-Cascade 50.9. The median compared French town: 44.
The figure for residents aged 65 and over is 31% in Sillans-la-Cascade and 22% in the typical compared French town. For Sillans-la-Cascade, the census puts residents aged 15 to 24 at 9%.
Women and men · all residents
49% women, 51% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Var 51.4%, France 51.8%.
Single-parent households make up 7.3% in Sillans-la-Cascade, less than in 87% of compared French towns
A household is everyone who shares a main home (résidence principale). Household types come from INSEE’s fuller sample of a quarter of census forms.
Against the Var median and the France median
Living alone · share
There are 2.2 people in the average household. Typically, 10% of households are single parents in the typical compared French town. At 20%, the share of couples with children is lower than in 72% of compared French towns.
Per consumption unit, the median standard of living is €24,580 a year
The standard of living (niveau de vie) is a household’s disposable income after taxes and benefits, divided by its consumption units (UC) to allow for its size and make-up: 1 for the first adult, 0.5 for each other person 14 or older, 0.3 for each child under 14.
Medians of compared communes. Source: INSEE, Filosofi 2023.
Half of residents live in households above €24,580 a year per consumption unit and half below; the level is lower than in 65% of compared French towns.
Fewer households headed by a manager or professional than 65% of compared French towns: 7.3%
Households by the socio-professional group (PCS) of their reference person, INSEE’s own categories. Jobs and commuting are on the Work & commute page.
Households by reference person’s group · share of households
Here just over one in ten households are headed by a manual worker, where the figure in the typical compared French town is 14%. Set beside that, nearly one in ten households are headed by a manager or professional in the typical compared French town.
Each household is counted once, by the occupation of its reference person (usually the oldest working adult).
More immigrants than 62% of compared French towns: 8.3%
INSEE publishes two measures, which overlap but aren’t the same. Neither is the UK’s “born abroad”.
Share of residents · census 2023
Immigrant (immigré)
Born abroad, not French at birth. Someone stays an immigrant after becoming French. A French citizen born abroad (for example in Algeria before 1962) is not one.
Foreign national (étranger)
Not a French citizen today, wherever born. A child born in France to foreign parents can be a foreign national without being an immigrant.
6% of residents are foreign nationals; in the typical compared French town the figure is 4.3%. The median compared commune in Var has 6.5%; immigrants here make up a share higher than in 62% of compared French towns.
INSEE publishes no country of birth or ethnicity by commune in these tables, and the census doesn’t ask about religion.
19% of residents 15 and over are single, below 97% of compared French towns
Residents 15 and over by how they live: the census asks both the legal status and whether people live as a couple.
Residents 15 and over · share
Against a figure of 43% in the typical compared French town, the share of married residents in Sillans-la-Cascade comes in at 51%. In the typical compared French town, the share of single residents is 25%.
Below 73% of compared French towns: 15% of adults out of school have no qualification
Highest diploma of residents 15 and over who have left education, in French terms: the levels don’t map one-to-one to UK or U.S. ones.
Highest diploma · 15 and over, out of education
The census found that 29% of adults out of school hold a higher-education qualification in Sillans-la-Cascade. Elsewhere, nearly a fifth of adults out of school have no qualification in the typical compared French town.
Ranked by age, 11th oldest of 41 French towns this size
The 40 compared French towns nearest in population, by median age. Hover for each one’s second homes and immigrants; click for its page.
The youngest is Villejust (37.2), the oldest Prayssac (62.3).
Around Sillans-la-Cascade, 4 of 6 towns have a higher median age
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more, colored by median age. Source: INSEE, census 2023.
Health, work, housing and schools
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Census 2023. INSEE’s census is a rolling survey: a fifth of small communes each year, 8% of homes in large ones each year. “2023” pools the surveys of 2021 to 2025, so the figures describe the town around 2023, not on one day.
- Medians of compared communes. The comparisons are the median of the département’s compared communes and of France’s (those with an overall grade), each figure its own median: not the total for the département or for France, which large cities pull towards their own figures.
- Immigrants and foreign nationals. INSEE’s two measures: an immigrant was born abroad without French nationality; a foreign national isn’t French today. Neither is a count of people born abroad, which INSEE doesn’t publish by commune.
- Second homes. Homes used for holidays or weekends, with occasional dwellings (kept for work, for example), which INSEE counts together. Their owners are counted where they live, not here.
- Standard of living. INSEE’s Filosofi: disposable income per consumption unit, from tax and benefit files, 2023. The poverty rate is the share of residents below 60% of France’s median. Not published for the smallest communes.
- What France doesn’t ask. The French census asks nothing about ethnicity, religion, language or health, so this page has no such section.
Questions about who lives in Sillans-la-Cascade
What is the population of Sillans-la-Cascade?
787 at INSEE’s 2023 census, 11% more than in 2012 (708).
How old are Sillans-la-Cascade’s residents?
The median age is 50.9, older than 86% of compared French towns. 18% are under 18 and 31% 65 or older.
How many second homes are there in Sillans-la-Cascade?
110, with occasional dwellings: 22% of all homes, against 2.1% for the median compared French town.
How many immigrants live in Sillans-la-Cascade?
INSEE counts 65 immigrants (born abroad, not French at birth), 8.3% of residents, and 47 foreign nationals (6%). The medians of compared French towns are 6.5% and 4.3%.
What is the median income in Sillans-la-Cascade?
€24,580 a year per consumption unit in 2023 (median of compared French towns €25,970). Source: INSEE, Filosofi.
Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, ages, households, homes, marital status, diplomas, immigrants, foreign nationals, employment), 2026 geography · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (standard of living, poverty) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · Medians and percentiles: TownRatings, over compared French towns, updated November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
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